Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-02-18

a station a large caro- appears in the coach,
announcing the name Of the station you
are going into
Paqe Courier Of the 9Th says In sec
ton Of Page county, Va, twelve miles
long by half mile wide, the following
old people live in good health at the ages
named Jas. Bumgarduer, 90; Ms Catha-
rine Good, widow, -; Charles Keyser 81
Mrs. c. Keyser, % Mrs. Caiharine Grove,
widow, %: Mrs Louisa Stuckler widow,
p: Adam strickler, 10 Jacob Shenk, -
Henry Gander, 20; Philip Long, "a Gideon
c. Brubaker, 80; Mrs. Polly Brubaker,
widow, 7G Isaac Bryant (col'd.,) so; and
Isabel Hanes, (cord.,) -. The average
age Of the II names given is ~ years and
10 months.
The same paper Of the 18th says In
our report Of the cold civilization on the
River last week, our informant omitted
the following Mrs. Christman, widow,
~: Geo. b. Slusher, 70; ylrs. Elizabeth
Mitchell. 81 and Lean Kelley, (copd., ~.
Salem Times Register Last Tuesday
sparks from the engine of freight train
on the Norfolk and Western Road, set fire
IN the fence on the farm Of Col. c. W.
Rurwell. a few miles below this place
and. besides destroying about mile OF
fence. it swept clean forty-acre field OF
well.set clover and burned mp about
twenty tons of hay. Passing on, the fire
was communicated to the fence OF MI
James L. Houtz, about mile of which
was also destroyed. When the train was
nearing Langhornes mill the sparks were
falling thick and fast, and soon destroyed
a fine stand Of timothy on several acres
of land belonging to Mr.. John II. Palmer
Later on the work of destruction became
greater. and when the tram reached the
farm of Capt. J. T. Sayers, about four
miles west of Salem, his clover and grass
stands were entirely destroyed, and
large amount of fencing burned. A num-
Der of men fought the flames desperately
and the scene during the raging OF the
fire and smoke is represented as iesem-
bling war. with the absence Of guns For
several miles down the valley the fire was
doing its work at the same time, and
could be seen for long distance. And all
this destruction was caused by the sparks
from the same engine.
alexandria Ga.ette Southbound freight
train No. 4, on the Virginia Midland rail
road. broke through Bannister trestlc,
about three miles south of Chatham, at
$40 o'clock Yesterday evening. Brake
man L. X. Martin was killed, and the
rest of the crew badly hurt. The engine
and twenty-five cars are a total wreck
The cause of the accident was the partial
burning of the bents of the bridge, the
FIRE having caught from sparks from
preceding train, and the condition OF the
bridge could not be seen by the engineer
of the in fated train. The crash was dis
tinctly heard at Chatham, three miles
from the place Of accident, which was one
of the most serious that has occurred on
the road for long time. The bridge had
recently been rebuilt aud was in excellent
condition Just previous to its taking fire
Besides Brakeman Martin, who was killed.
the following, being the entire crew, were
injured: j. G. johnson, conductor, arm
broken J. Mccormick, engineer, bruised
about the head and body; H. I. Creasey'
brakeman, arm broken; T. Purws, IRE
man, slightly bruised - BARLEY
brakeman, injured about the head. The
wrecking train was at once sent to the
scene of the accident and the trestle will
be at once rebuilt the material for 50
doing being now on the ground. In the
meantime through trains will use the c.
q o. and the r. d. roads
.Stauntoa indicator On Friday last,
George Tyree, colored, was arrested at
Waynesboro which is a local option town,
for selling liquor, lie was held to bail in
$500 to appear and answer. Hut Smith, a
livery stable keeper, and w. Leech,
workman, both respectable colorod men,
went on the bond for his appearance.
Directly he was released he fled. His two
sureties followed, arrested him late on
Monday night last and brought him to
the station house at Waynesboro Tuesday
morning and surrendered him. Later in
the morning, while Mayor Patterson was
signing commitment for him to the
Stanton Jail, the startling news was
brought that Tyree had cut his throat
He had stood up in his cell and saying
Here's Justice gentlemen" had cut
cash three inches long in his windpipe,
and moment later made another CASH
Mayor Patterson who had run into the
cell on hearing of the act took possession
of the razor and sent for medical and.
Tyree himself cried out "Send for a
Doctor" repeatedly. Drs. Jones and
Killiam sewed up the two ugly gashes and
the probability is that Tyree will live
Mayor Patterson as an act of humanity
again bailed him and turned him over to his
family who promised to nurse him and
gave security to surrender him if he re-
covered. Tyrec is disreputable man
who lately served out years imprlson-
ment for blowing up the house of another
colored man. with dynamite. He said
that the razor was not given him in jail,
but that he carried it there concealed in
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